New Year, New Family

I am so excited for 2014 to be here, because I know it means the best changes EVER! We are getting so close to having everything B needs for us to issue a travel date! Tomorrow I will send out the last paper they need to be apostilled by the Sec of State before our first trip! Then once I get that paper back and then sent to the country we will get a travel date!!!!! It may be slightly more complicated than that, but you get the idea. None of it is easy! We did buy Natalie a couple of Christams presents, maybe out of excitement, or maybe as preparation! I still would like a couple of really soft throw blankets for her and a taggie! I have splurged and attacked the Matilda Jane clearance sale and bought a few outfits! Hey, a girl will have to have some style.... Maybe she should be their model?!!!!!

Some may ask if knowing that a travel date just means our first trip makes us sad. Yes and No. Yes because it will be heart breaking to see her, hold her, and then leave her there. No, because it will be real. She will no longer be a picture from a year ago. We will be able to take pictures of us with her. We will be able to take presents and we will be able to show her that she has a family. I don't know how much she will understand. And I don't know if she will understand that we are coming back. That is in Gods hands. To comfort us in the space between visitation and pick up. We have come this far. For almost a year we have been staring at a picture of a girl who doesn't know how lucky she is about to get!!! That is worth it all!

You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror. (Psalm 10:17, 18 NIV)